Also known as SC-228

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• said to be late Tiffanian

•said by Gingerich and Childress 1983 to be SC-228, and by Butler et al. 1981 to be SC-239; these two localities are stratigraphically very close according to the latter, but SC-239 is near the top of C26n and SC-228 near the bottom of C25r according to Secord et al. 2006

•meter level given by Gingerich and Childress 1983; accords with figured section of Butler et al. 1981

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: D. W. Krause. 1987. Systematic Revision of the Genus Prochetodon (Ptilodontidae, Multituberculata) from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(8):221-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15007: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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